{1} Those who are interested in the historic parallels supplied by Christian biography, will find a similar instructive dream in the Life of General Burn, vol. i. pp.127-130. {2} Ivimey's Life of Bunyan, pp.51-53. {3} Remains, vol. iii. p.391. {4} The other items contained in the book that this text comes from were: Jerusalem Sinner Saved; Pharisee and the Publican; The Trinity and the Christian; The Law and a Christian; Bunyan's Last Sermon; Bunyan's Dying Sayings and An Exhortation to Peace and Unity. All of them are available from Project Gutenberg -- DP. {5} "Pascal was an exception. D'Aubigne, so far as writing in French makes a Frenchman, is another. Their works are full of fancy, but it is the fancy which gives to truth its wings. The rocket is charged, not with coloured sparks, but burning jewels. {6} Here, again, exceptions occur, and the greatest of our Scottish preachers is a contradiction to the characteristic style of his country. |